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Grateful DeadGrateful Dead Live at Five Seasons Center on 1984-07-04 (July 4, 1984)

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Collection: : GratefulDead
Band/Artist: Grateful Dead
Date: July 4, 1984 (check for other copies)
Venue: Five Seasons Center
Location: Cedar Rapids, IA

Source: SBD> Master Cassette> Cassette> Dat, plus patches from FOB Sennheiser 421> Cass
Lineage: Dat (Sony R500)> SEK'D Prodif Plus> Samplitude v7.02 Professional> Adobe Audition> SHN; Transferred and Patched By Charlie Miller; Speed corrected by +2.37% to match the speed of the FOB, by Jay Ashley
Keywords: Live concert

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Feel Like A Stranger, Friend Of The Devil, CC Rider, Cumberland Blues-> Beat It On Down The Line, Row Jimmy, Hell In A Bucket-> Don't Ease Me In Help On The Way-> Slipknot!-> Franklin's Tower-> Far From Me-> Estimated Prophet-> He's Gone-> Drums-> Truckin'-> Wharf Rat-> Around & Around-> Good Lovin', E: U.S. Blues

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Reviewer: NYLifer - - July 4, 2008
Subject: Dedicated to who?
At the very beginning of Help On The Way, Weir dedicates the show to someone, sounds like Brian or Ryan Paul. At the start of He's Gone someone (drunken Phil, Wavy?) says "This one's for Paul, a rainbow bud". Any ideas on who that was?
Peace, Bob
I like it, it's got a good beat and easy to dance to. Sound is up to cm standards. The end of He's Gone until drums start is very fine listening.

Reviewer: jackal52 - - July 4, 2008
Subject: Flying Saucers
I was at this show. It is true that there were sheets of Pink flying saucers doses available. The show was general admission. I ran in when a back door opened and made it to the second row center. The reverb was incredible sounding given the influence of the flying saucers. Cops were very active in the parking lot right across the street after the show. (they had riot gear on) Overall, it was a fantastic experience given I was 19 years old.

Reviewer: jake5 - - August 3, 2007
Subject: 1st Show
16 yrs old & drove from DSM w/ 4 others in a tiny Civic hatchback. The whole experience was a great 1st show experience. Little road trip, seeing the parade from the previous show on the drive. Seeing the circus in downtown CR. Watching some lady stretch out just left of the stage before the show started...hmmmmm (whats that all about I wondered) and then the place come alive the second the musuc started. Spent as much time watching the crowd as the band. Then after the show stepping outside and watching bottle rockets and roman candles bounce off the buildings.
Great to get this and revisit.
Regardless of the previous reviewers snobbish ramblings (for his friends sake I only hope he writes like this)we had a great time and a great experience. We were hooked and w/ the shows we rattled off over the next 6 yrs (had enough after 5/90) we knew better and took it all in stride. I myself would rather listen to a washed out audience of a great show or one I experienced waiting for that one hook that caught me in the middle of a Jack Straw or Terrapin..than a a great recording w/ a setlist I could never appriciate. Yes, I too can appriciate the work that goes into great sound, but Mr. Audiophile needs to remember why he bought his first ticket.

Out

Reviewer: Evan S. Hunt - - July 5, 2007
Subject: Well, It Might Not Be Nothing Super Special
But it does have great presence. This recording well-represents the full spectrum of sound with nice highs and super lows all distortion free. I am appreciative of all the work that went into preserving this into perpetuity for us music lovers. I imagine that the ones who did the clean-up and speed correction must have thought this show was worth presenting if for nothing else than it is a Phil extravaganza.

I have always believed that a show with good sound reproduction is more palatable than a great performance that is awash in distortion, tape warble and speed variations. If Phil is particularly prominent his playing plugs in and compensates for a multitude of sins.

And honestly, I must admit that it sounds all night like they're giving it everything they've got on an empty tank. After all, the audience paid good money! (and went thru hell). The band feels obligated, (thank God), to at least try to give us our money's worth, And after all, we have saved and planned to be here today for this show, damn it, and muscular or flabby this bitch gotta go down.

That being said...even with stellar sound repro it is difficult to listen for very long when Jerry forgets lyrics and generally sounds a little distracted while playing guitar. It's like waking up on stage with a guitar in your hand and sputtering around to yourself asking yourself if you have been here 5 seconds or five hours.

Major blow-its on Cumberland and then on Help>Slip leave an enthusiastic listener rather disjointed. So much so, that you get up and go wash dishes. That's not a good sign, but Jerry does grab himself up by the boot straps and gets through it in dubiously even, yet suspect, pace.

This is a ho-hum version of Far From Me by Brent. This song could shine and it did here and there but even though the bass is waxing hot and melty the GD just can't seem to pull this one into the fire and it just dies a lukewarm death. Too bad, because I think this song could have been a promising show-stopper type song for the boys from Marin, but it ends like a blow out on the Golden G ate Bridge... And you ain't got no jack.

The conclusion is that even though I do not believe any of the players were actually high on drugs while on stage they sound as if they were still high from the night before. Perhaps I mis-spoke earlier when I said that good sound could make a mediocre performance better. In this case, the great sound reproduction reveals all the flaws. It is a sad testimony. This is the epitome of a drugged band too long on the road.

This show fairly rocks here but not there, you dig? Perhaps if you were a fan out in the crowd with your friends and partying down this show would certainly be adequate. It is certainly not for the spoiled audiophile, but, nonetheless, salt makes sweet, and after much boiling, the Grateful Dead ditches He's Gone and comes rollicking out of Drums with a new found fervor and with an Other One tease. You can hear Phil wanting to break loose, because he's been wanting to all night long but he knows certain band members have reached their limit, and he holds back, and the ensemble goes back into space.

Care not for Wharf Rat? Me, either, but this one I climb onto like a fire escape, drenched in fire hose issue. Oh, Phoenix, Great Bird, I callest upon thee to rise up once again from out of the ashes of larghetto into largess. And it is over. I am quickly spent.

Around falls Good Lovin and US Blues wraps it up, hurriedly. The way it comes down is kinda like a prostitute when she's done wit' ya.

an' there you are..................







But the space part gives the band a collective breather and they catapult sveltely into a cavernous awakening of Truckin>Wharf. And just like that, just as you were going to get up and walk out the band comes alive.

Reviewer: ddobbie - - July 4, 2007
Subject: so so
nothing super special

Reviewer: B Dylan - - June 11, 2007
Subject: First show!
It was my fifth wedding anniversary and my wife and I were staying in the hotel connected to the arena, the second person we spoke to had ice cold doses for purchase, so the night just kept getting better as it went on, most excellent show. Later, partying in our room on the fifteenth floor, we thought we were hearing people talking outside our room's door. It was the fire alarm going off, telling us to evacuate the building via the stairs, long walk with a lot of tripping people. Like the next week, Cedar Rapids adopted a public urination ordinance,due to the large number of deadheads going on the sidewalks, God I miss you Jerry.
God's speed to you all,
B Dylan
PS. met Bobby once after a Ratdog show.

Reviewer: gr8fulscott - - March 30, 2007
Subject: outer body experience
this was my 4th show of 450......... the hotel was a hilton in downtown cedar rapids and they dint expect us at all. i remember sheets of LSD floating in the indoor swimming pool and people just doing laps, it was wierd. the show it self was crazy being that it was the 4th healy had the reverb so high that it sounded like a fuse burning down to the moment the Boys walked on stage. Then it just kind of exploded into this crazy mahem of way way to many people getting off on red flying saucers..........it went from there it was the only indoor show of the tour and they let us know it......... it was cookin and way fast and way hot the city dint know how to deal with all the heads after the show!!!!!!!!!!!

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SBD> Master Cassette> Cassette> Dat, plus patches from FOB Sennheiser 421> Cass; Transfer: Dat (Sony R500)> SEK'D Prodif Plus> Samplitude v7.02 Professional> Adobe Audition> SHN; Transferred and Patched By Charlie Miller; Speed corrected by +2.37% to match the speed of the FOB, by Jay Ashley